Word

אֲבַד

ʼăbad · H7 · Aramaic · 7 occurrences

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Meanings

to vanish, to disappear, to be lost, to perish, to be broken, to be destroyed, to be ruined

Process by which humans or objects disappear or are removed from existence; either by (a usually unnatural) death, aggression, hardship, disaster, natural processes, acts of destruction, or direct divine intervention

Examples
Jeremiah 10:11 This is what you shall say to them: “The gods that did not make the heavens and the earth will perish from the earth and from under these heavens.”
to destroy or kill

The action by which humans or deities remove other humans or objects from existence, by death, aggression, hardship, disaster, destruction, or direct divine intervention, often as punishment

Examples
Daniel 2:12 Because of this, the king became angry and extremely furious, and he gave orders to kill all the wise men of Babylon.
Daniel 2:18 so that they might request compassion from the God of heaven concerning this secret, so that Daniel and his friends would not be killed with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.
Daniel 2:24 Thereupon, Daniel went to Arioch, whom the king had appointed to kill the wise men of Babylon; he went and said this to him: “Do not kill the wise men of Babylon! Take me into the king’s presence, and I will declare the interpretation to the king.”
to destroy, to corrupt, to put an end

Action by which someone brings an event to an end, usually under unfavorable circumstances

Examples
Daniel 7:26 ‘But the court will convene for judgment, and his dominion will be taken away, annihilated and destroyed forever.

How it’s used In 5 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

7 occurrences in 5 groups

Not stated (infinitive) 3
גֶּשֶׁםbody 1
אֱלָהּGod, god 1
Not stated: you (one person) 1
Not stated: they 1

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

1 occurrences in 2 groups

דָּנִיֵּאלDaniel 1
חֲבַרcompanion 1

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

5 occurrences in 3 groups

לto/for+ חַכִּיםwise 3
עַדand+ סוֹףend 1
עִםby+ שְׁאָרwhatsoever more 1

With adverbsAdverbs

2 occurrences in 2 groups

לָאnot 1
אַלnot 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 1 groups

לto/for 2

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

In the other Testament 1 word

ἀπόλλυμι apóllymi · G622 · to ruin, to destroy, destruction: Greek ἀπόλλυμι serves as the standard LXX rendering of Hebrew אֲבַד across its core semantic range of destruction and perishing, maintaining the same reflexive/intransitive capacity (perish) and transitive causative sense (destroy) that the Hebrew root exhibits.

Semantic domains 5 entries

Non-Space002002001018: Jeremiah 10:11 has the prophet declare of false gods, “the gods that did not make the heavens and the earth will perish from the earth and from under these heavens.”
Think002004002013: Daniel 2:18 recounts that Daniel and his friends sought “compassion from the God of heaven concerning this secret, so that Daniel and his friends would not be killed with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.”
Non-Exist002002002006: Daniel 7:26 says of the fourth beast's dominion, “the court will convene for judgment, and his dominion will be taken away, annihilated and destroyed forever.”
Dead002001001018: Daniel 2:12 recounts that “the king became angry and extremely furious, and he gave orders to kill all the wise men of Babylon.”
End002003003010: Daniel 7:11 recounts of the boastful horn's beast, “I kept looking until the beast was killed, and its body was destroyed and given to the burning fire.”

Word family 7 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

אָבַד ʼâbad · H6 · to be lost, to wander, to stray · 184×אֲבַדʼăbad · H7אֲבֵדָה ʼăbêdâh · H9 · lost object · 4×אֹבֵד ʼôbêd · H8 · destruction, to be permanent · 2×אֲבַדֹּה ʼăbaddôh · H10 · world of the dead · 1×אַבְדָן ʼabdân · H12 · destruction, extermination · 1×אׇבְדַן ʼobdan · H13 · destruction, extermination · 1×

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0